Provides an overview of the cultural and political events of the decade. Comprehensive, detailed, often hilarious, this is an account of the sixties in Britain...more details Format:Paperback
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9780304363865
One thing about rhyming slang is it doesn t always rhyme. Or at least it doesn t seem to. It isn t always easy to understand or decipher, and it was never meant to be. This book explores its history and diversity in three main sections: a brief introductory history...more details Format:Paperback Pages:480
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9781862056909
Twelve millennia since it appeared, cannabis remains one of the most popular and controversial drugs consumed today. This revised, paperback edition of the successful Cannabis is an informative and entertaining guide to the history of 'weed'...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9780304351961
Thousands of wryly amusing quotations on every conceivable aspect of life, arranged thematically Topics covered range from acting to writing...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9780304366361
With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus...more details Format:Hardback Pages:1508
One thing about rhyming slang is it doesn t always rhyme. Or at least it doesn t seem to. It isn t always easy to understand or decipher, and it was never meant to be. This book explores its history and diversity in three main sections: a brief introductory history...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9780550104397
Chambers Slang Dictionary is a brand-new edition version of Jonathon Green s magisterial slang dictionary, first published in 1998. Covering the full range of slang over five centuries and from all parts of the English-speaking world...more details Format:Hardback Pages:1520
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9780099549994
Looks at five hundred years of crooks and conmen - from the hedge-creepers and counterfeit cranks of the sixteenth century to the blaggers and burners of the twenty-first - as well as the swag...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9781856264655
Famous Last Words is a sometimes funny, sometimes moving compilation of the parting phrases of the famous and infamous. With his customary eye for the bizzare and the curious...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9780550104403
The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this often reviled but endlessly fascinating area of the English language...more details Format:Hardback
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9780140514322
An entertaining guide to the colourful, inventive and frequently irreverent world of slang which enlivens everyday speech....more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
Coined in the spontaneity of the everyday spoken act, slang exists as a testament to human nature's inventive and subversive instinct. This history of English slang documents our verbal predilections for the racier side of life...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9781856264792
Coined in the spontaneity of the everyday spoken act, slang exists as a testament to human nature's inventive and subversive instinct. This history of English slang documents our verbal predilections for the racier side of life...more details Format:Paperback
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9780304363681
Scabrous, scurrilous and profoundly offensive, The Big Book of Being Rude is the indispensible handbook for anyone wanting to broaden their repertoire of insult...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
Whether you're after number ones, number twos or perhaps a map of Ireland there is something for you in this scatological survey. It contains over 4000 words for everything ranging from mucus to menstrual blood...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
Whether you're after number ones, number twos or perhaps a map of Ireland there is something for you in this scatalogical survey. It contains over 4000 words for everything ranging from mucus to menstrual blood...more details Format:Hardback Pages:352
Visceral, raw, and - above all - utterly filthy, The Big Book of Filth is an ideal companion for the lexically incorrect, and the perfect gift for those who worry that their vocabulary of sexual vulgarism is limited to such oft-used terms as cock...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Jonathon Green
ISBN:9780304353507
The ideal companion for the lexically incorrect. Here are hundreds of words and phrases you didn't know, some you probably didn't want to know - and words and phrases for sexual practices you had no idea even existed....more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
Over 10,000 copies sold in hardback Over 1.5 million words of text and 75,000 entries, covering slang from every part of the English-speaking world from the sixteenth century to the present day Each entry records the date when a slang word appeared...more details Format:Paperback Pages:1326
This guide contains over 60,000 entries covering slang from the 16th century to the 1990s, and includes the latest slang terms and expressions. Slang is covered from all parts of the English-speaking world...more details Format:Hardback Pages:1326
With more than 7,000 zingers, the right crushing retort is always at hand No more thinking of an apt reply after it's too late: just store up a collection of choice rejoinders from over 1...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:380
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Jonathon Green;Dan Pearce
ISBN:9780304368228
"Dirt" cleans up Jonathon Green's previous compilation, The Big Book of Filth, sold more than 100,000 copies. Smuttier, ruder, and better than ever...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:335
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Jonathon Green;Nicholas J Karolides
ISBN:9780816044641
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Judy Blume - Christian Coalition - Harry Potter (series) - Stephen King - Napster - and more....more details Format:Hardback Pages:720
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Laurell K Hamilton;Jordan D Green JonathonWhite
ISBN:9780785129417
Anita Blake's adventures began with the novel Guilty Pleasures, where the vampires of the St. Louis area tried to recruit the veteran vampire hunter to help them solve a peculiar mystery...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:128
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Green Jonathon
ISBN:9780550105240
SMUT is a guide to the coarsest, the most lubricious, the downest and distinctly dirtiest of the counter-language that is slang.These singularly degenerate pages contain every word you would want to know...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288